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Day: September 27, 2011

  • Corelle Fragments

    I fumble-fingered a plate, it fell between my tummy and the counter, and hit the floor edge-on. There’s a lot of energy stored in that stretched-glass ceramic layer! [Update: The glass is under compression.]

    Shattered Corelle plate on floor
    Shattered Corelle plate on floor

    The fragments tend to be slivers rather than chunks, all with better-than-razor-sharp edges:

    Corelle slivers
    Corelle slivers

    A bit more detail on Corelle in that post